First flight for Norwegian to Stockholm and
spotting at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
September 1st 2003
Photos and report by Kurt Gorm Larsen

LN-KKM at gate 39 - Oslo Airport ready for boarding for Norwegian's maiden flight to Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

After having arrived Arlanda, I felt for this motif - it shows the tower in between the road ramps leading up to the departure level at Terminal 3. The lower part of the tower is decorated with quotations from the Swedish translation of Southern Mail (original title Courrier Sud) written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (pilot and poet - 1900-1944)

Here you have terminal 2 at Arlanda

Saab 340A in Flying Enterprise colours about to land on RWY 01L

Another Saab 340A, this time in Skyways colours

Beech 300 Super King Air owned by Waltair

Scandinavian Airlines with their Airbus A321-232 arrives from Copenhagen

On the return to the terminals just passed the cargo area, these three parked ex. Transjet 747s caught my attention. They were park at ramp M (de-iceing ramp), but a few days later they were moved to ramp K.

All four large courier companies are represented at ARN, here with FedEx A300, yellow DHL B752, old design UPS B752 and TNT with their only B733F OO-TNA

On the back to the terminals and a well deserved lunch, I got this in the camera sight - the tower in full length

Here is the new spotter shed at the northern end of RWY 01R/19L

And this is how RWY 01R/19L looks like from the shed - to the left you have TWY W. A disappointment was that there was abosolutely no traffic on this RWY for the two hours I stayed in the neighbourhood, eventhough the wind direction was perfect for its use.

And here we have the three ex. Transjet Boeing 747s from the shed. There were also two West Air Sweden Cargo HS-748 parked at the same ramp.

West Air Sweden Cargo HS-748 SE-LIE out on assignment - taxiing down W to get to XA and RWY 08

SE-LIE is climbing out from RWY 08

If you move a couple of hundred metres to the northeast from the spotter shed, you can get great shots with a 400mm lens of both ramp K and take offs from RWY 08. Here we have two Caravelles parked at ramp K, one in the old SAS colours and one belonging to the Caravelle Club.

Skyways ERJ-145 takes off from RWY 08

And this MyTravel A321 was bound for Oslo

SAS Dash 8-Q400 cleaned up and on climb out

SAS A321 just started climb out

SAS Boeing 737-883 rotating

Britannia Boeing 737-804 SE-DZK heading for Larnaca

Also the Czech Airlines celebration of hundred years of flight was on a short visit

Now it was about time to board the Norwegian LN-KKH for flight back to Oslo. With some magic in PC you can get this type of photo - a mirror mirror.

How was Norwegian on the flight to and from Arlanda?
Norwegian is a low cost carrier (LCC) and you can't but notice this. Because the flight to Arlanda was a first for Norwegian, we got a special treatment - a cup of coffee, a small dark chocolate, and the woman in seat 10D won return-tickets for two on domestic services in Norway. The rest of us got small city guide for Stockholm :-)
As for most LCCs, Boeing 737-300s are used, the seats are bit worn out, you get to the destination on time, and you don't need to pay so much for the tickets - NOK621 (€76) for the trip. To conclude - cost performance is OK.